An Evaluation of the Effect of Auditory Emotional Stimuli on Interval Timing

Timing and Time Perception

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 48-62

  Halbertsma, Hinke N ^a   Van Rijn, Hedderik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

attention vs. arousal; auditory stimuli; emotion; Interval timing; pacemaker accumulator models; temporal modulation; time perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84980316375     PISSN: 2213445X     EISSN: 22134468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/22134468-00002061     Document Type: Article

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